I'll Set You Free (Live from Santa Clara CA 9/2/89) - Bangles *Best In (Live) Show* Audio 

I don't believe in karma, never see the evidence, evil endures, after all slagdonna's malign influence still here, will never die, though the music scene long dead since the 90s. Typically the label treated them like crap and sadly they left the pressure bust them at, and spent little time touring and enjoying their career-est album, the one that this song is from.

they still can

I agree with every word. This song would have done really well, if not number 1. Love the melody and harmony on this song. Side note: The ladies really do look lovely in this photo. I hope Micki is happy and doing well, wherever she is.

@@michaeleveringham8238 I agree - this is a beautiful song.

Much better song than Eternal Flame!

No it couldn't, let's not lie. People put obvious things (and often unremarkable things at No,1). For Gods sake, the perfect (few) singles released from the debut got nowhere when it should have broken them through, and they only made the 2 obvious ones huge from "Different Light". Intriguingly in the UK, 'Be With You' got higher than 'In Your Room' did-very odd considering the latter was an ahead of new album released and featured Su predictably as all 1st releases do. 'I'll Set You Free'-like many Bangles songs, especially from this album, and many other cool 80s acts are tailor-made for No.1 in themselves. but not the way the market is run. Charts are rigged, and the best stuff always hits the lower reaches-when it hits at all!!

Alongside Duran Duran and ABBA, agreed. Bangles are one of my fave acts, in the top 4 after my 1st act, Kim Wilde.

I think they broke up before it was released as a single. Wasn't it the last on the album?

@@Buc_Stops_Here It was the last single released by them, how depressing, the album hadn't been out half a year and they were already done.

@@kyachdistent1301 Thanks for confirming!

RJ McAllister It's not the same without Michael, though

@@inabind416 ...no matter who they get on stage for the bass ... without michael it CAN NOT be the same. Impossible!!!

Well, there is a modus operandi in the biz and the 3 album deal is it. It's followed by the star going solo. So, I think the reason it was not made a single is because they were planning on making it the single from the greatest hits, but because they had officially broken up by then, it did not get the push it should have, with an official video and television appearances. The business really screwed the bangles up. The turning point was If she knew what she wants. They should have instead released In a Different Light. That would have kept their rockband cred alive, while also showcasing a different lead vocalist, plus the familiarity of Susanna's voice is prominent enough for people to know it's the same band. By releasing ISKWSW they created the Susanna is the lead template and they never got past it. The next mistake was In Your Room/Be With You. Rather than In Your Room being the first single from Everything, they should have released a different vocalist. Be With You was the wrong Debbi song to be a single. Yes it has the strings and all that, but it just isn't the hit that Some Dreams Come True is. They should have released Some Dreams Come True before the albums release. the. Release In Your Room a few days before the albums release. Then Eternal Flame. Or at the very least, just released Some Dreams Come True instead of Be With You and given it as much push as in your room. Side 2 of the greatest hits being Hazy Shade of Winter In Your Room Eternal Flame Some Dreams Come True I'll set you free Everything I wanted Where were you Is still way too Susanna heavy to be a fair representation of the band. Maybe throwing What I meant to say up there would help. But the funny thing is... Often times the other bangles songs aren't single material. They're great music but just not single material. None of the other girls' songs on everything are singles. Perhaps watching the sky? That song at least is distinctive enough. Perhaps the glamrocky late 80s could have found that as a single but it would be a lower charting/more cult status type song.

@@ullischuster1263 Ulli....have you heard the studio version of this? It destroyed me, man....you should check it out.

This was my neck of the woods, at that time. What a dope I was for not goin'....

By the way... I never heard this song. It's really good....

@@fredflintstone2958 Yeah, dumbass, but the studio version will destroy you....

@@fredflintstone2958 Yes, you were. Madogga got in 1st I suppose.

No, not with that baby voice and country-like twang. Granted she's in one of the best groups ever, but her voice is no better than the other 3, and there are better women voices than hers-Kim Wilde, ABBA's Agnetha and Frida, Sheena Easton, Pat Benatar, Maggie Reilly, Natasha England, Anna De Cazio of Cock Robin, Claudia Brucken, Laura Branigan, Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac, girls from B52s, Tracy and Melissa from Voice Of The Beehive, Aimee Mann of 'Til Tuesday,Deborah Harry, Wilson Phillips, though this about voice, not band quality, no female group (they're not bands, no instruments). Granted Su baby voice is cute and I put it alongside other baby-voiced girls-Thereza Bazar of Dollar, Jane Wiedlin, Wendy Wilson of Wilson Phillips, Sandra, it's more a voice of sporadic appeal, which is why it worked well among 3 other lead singers every album. A voice like Belinda Carlisle and Carol Decker of T'Pau, Grace Jones and Siobhan Fahey may sound challenging, but all-round makes more sense for a full album then Susanna's does.

Yes.

@@kyachdistent1301 Thanks!

How does THIS sound like Cyndi Lauper? It sounds like Bangles cos it is. If this sounds like Cyndi Lauper, then Richard Marx's 'Hazard' echoes Living In A Box's 'Room In Your Heart'!

"He?" I know she rocks a boy's name-well it's a thing most American women do (Taylor? Blake? Ryan? Christina? Jordan? They all bloody do it, silly mares, imagine a bloke doing the same, he's be killed), but Micki not a he. Susanna's country-like baby twang does sound odd on some songs, not just this one, it should be noticed from the start, but is ignored by those that fancy her like hell. Be even worse on 'Eternal Flame' but then slagdonna can't flaming sing, neither can Tina Turner for that matter, awful howling. She sings the early B-side 'Call On Me' weird, and they're backing isn't much better on it either. I guess they had a cold?

anda a cantar en vivo a ver si podes, envidiosaaaaa

@@carolain183 I mean these days most people sound awful in the studio and that's even with trickery to disguise their lousy voices, which shouldn't be allowed to work anyway.

zalala la Para mí, lo que sostenía a Susanna era el "cochón" armónico que hacían las otras tres chicas. Por eso no funcionó sola.

@@toscanoalexandre1455 Ha, ha! "Tienes mierda en tus oidos." So rude!

@@toscanoalexandre1455 BUT....you happen to be right!

Susana no era desafinada

Como respondiendo a mi propia respuesta eso no es respuesta es afirmacion